Read an excerpt from the essay "Branded Man", originally published in 2003 by No Depression Magazine, about Merle Haggards music and the meaning we read into his songwriting.

Watch fourteen outtakes from Joan Baez: How Sweet the Sound, including performances by Joan and interviews with Joan and Steve Earle.

Learn more about one of folk music's most influential figures.

In the summer of 1958, Joan Chandos Baez, a 17-year old high school graduate (by the skin of her teeth) moved with her family from Palo Alto to Boston...

Woody Guthrie, an indifferent guitar player who was a country singer-songwriter being controversial in his music as well as his life.